lain/alsa.md

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Shows and controls alsa volume with a textbox.

myvolume = lain.widgets.alsa()
  • Left click: Launch alsamixer in your terminal.
  • Right click: Mute/unmute.
  • Scroll wheel: Increase/decrase volume.

The function takes a table as optional argument, which can contain:

Variable Meaning Type Default
channel Mixer channel string "Master"
step Step at which volume is increased/decreased string "1%"
header Text to show before value string " Vol "
header_color Header color string beautiful.fg_normal or "#FFFFFF"
color Value color string beautiful.fg_focus or "#FFFFFF"

and outputs the following table:

Variable Type
widget awful.widget.textbox
channel string
step string
notify function

Finally, you can control the widget with key bindings like these:

    -- Volume control
    awful.key({ altkey }, "Up",
    function ()
        awful.util.spawn("amixer sset " .. volume.channel .. " " .. volume.step .. "+")
        volume.notify()
    end),
    awful.key({ altkey }, "Down",
    function ()
        awful.util.spawn("amixer sset " .. volume.channel .. " " .. volume.step .. "-")
        volume.notify()
    end),
    awful.key({ altkey }, "m",
    function ()
        awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master playback toggle")
        volume.notify()
    end),
    awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "m", 
    function ()
        awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master playback 100%", false )
        volume.notify()
    end),

where altkey = "Mod1".